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In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread in the 1950's New York jazz world. Dale gets an offer to play in Paris, where, like many other black American musicians at the time, he enjoys a respect for his humanity that is not based upon the color of his skin. A Parisian man who is obsessed with Turner's music befriends him and attempts to save Turner from himself. Although for Dale the damage is already done, his poignant relationship with the man and his young daughter re-kindles his spirit and his music as the end draws near. (official distributor synopsis)
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Dexter Gordon
USA
Best movies:
Awakenings (1990)
'Round Midnight (1986)
François Cluzet
France
Best movies:
The Intouchables (2011)
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
'Round Midnight (1986)
Gabrielle Haker
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Lonette McKee
USA
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
He Got Game (1998)
Jungle Fever (1991)
Sandra Reaves-Phillips
USA
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Lean on Me (1989)
For Love or Money (1993)
Christine Pascal
France
Best movies:
The Grand Highway (1987)
'Round Midnight (1986)
The Maids of Wilko (1979)
Herbie Hancock
USA
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Miles Ahead (2015)
Bobby Hutcherson
USA
Best movies:
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
'Round Midnight (1986)
Victoria Gabrielle Platt
USA
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
Matchmaker Santa (2012) (TV movie)
John Berry
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
'Round Midnight (1986)
Martin Scorsese
USA
Best movies:
Raging Bull (1980)
Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983)
Chauffeur de taxi (1976)
Philippe Noiret
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
The Old Gun (1975)
Sophie Marceau
France
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
'Round Midnight (1986)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Frédérique Meininger
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Flic Story (1975)
La Vie et rien d'autre (1989)
Liliane Rovère
France
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
'Round Midnight (1986)
Buffet Froid (1979)
Pierre Trabaud
France
Best movies:
War of the Buttons (1962)
Daisy Town (1971)
Asterix and Cleopatra (1968)
Eddy Mitchell
France
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
I Love You (1986)
Coup de torchon (1981)
Andrzej Precigs
Poland
Best movies:
Three Colours: White (1994)
'Round Midnight (1986)
East Wind (1993)
Ged Marlon
France
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Long Live Life (1984)
Série noire (1984) (series)
Alain Sarde
France
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
The Bait (1995)